Start a BBM chat

Use BBM to chat in
real-time with your BlackBerry
contacts and know when someone has read your message. Share pictures, voice notes,
your location, or other files.

Unlike text messaging, where you might pay for each text message that you send or receive
regardless of how brief the message might be, BBM uses your data plan so that you can can express yourself in as many, or as few,
messages as you want.

Tap .

Tap a contact.

Type your message or select an emoticon.

Press the Send key.

After you finish:

Tip: Have something that you want to share with multiple contacts?
Send a broadcast message or start a multiperson chat to let your contacts know your
news at the same time.

Send a file or ping someone

You can send different types of files to BBM
contacts,
including pictures, voice notes, your location, events, etc. When you ping someone in
BBM, the other person's BlackBerry device
vibrates (unless it's set to Silent) and the person sees the word PING in red.

To hide the keyboard, tap anywhere in the chat history.

Do one of the following:

To attach a file, tap .

To ping the contact, tap >
.

Peek at your chats

While in a chat, you can quickly
peek at your other chats.

To hide the keyboard, tap anywhere in the chat history.

Slide your finger right.

Send a broadcast message

Tap >
.

Type in the field, or tap to
select a few contacts from your address book and tap
Done.